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Non posso decidere ancora (I can’t decide yet) which holiday in Italy is my favorite, but io so (I know) that the celebration of Pasquetta (Easter Monday) is among my top five because it involves three of le mie cose preferite (my favorite things) including spending the day with friends, a car tripand cibo (food)! Ricordo quando (I remember when) M...

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Easter is just around the corner! From pre-ordering all your seasonal ingredients to set the table to shopping artisanal colomba cake, check off your shopping list and plan your visit now.   Spring is here and Easter is just around the corner! From pre-ordering all your seasonal ingredients to set the table to shopping artisanal colomba cake, check...

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Easter Culinary Traditions. Live from Italy with ALMA Scuola di Cucina. Saturday, March 13, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT, Online. Conversations will be in English. Register Here. Discover a land filled with thousands of bell towers and traditions, captured in a story between space and time, through the many flavors and recipes of Italy’s Easter celebrat...

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Modica is a Baroque town perched in the mountains of southern Sicily, an island just off the tip of the Italian mainland. With over one hundred churches, it is the site of one of Sicily’s most beloved Easter traditions. The Spanish, before there was a unified Spain and therefore starting with the Kingdom of Aragon, occupied Sicily for approximately...

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Easter weekend this year was different. I think that goes without saying. Everything for basically the entire world has been different since this pandemic hit. Work, meals, shopping, socializing — everything revolves around social distancing.  But this weekend was the first holiday where we were forced to go it alone. Despite its difficulties, here...

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Cari connazionali, quest’anno celebreremo la Pasqua in maniera diversa. Molti di noi lontani dagli affetti familiari e con un pensiero ancora più sentito nei confronti dell’Italia. Il nostro Paese sta affrontando con coraggio e generosità questa crisi. Le Autorità prendono decisioni difficili nell’interesse generale e ciascuno è chiamato a fare la...

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Easter is just around the corner, and many Italian companies – that focus their production exclusively on chocolate eggs and colomba (the typical Italian dove-shaped Easter dessert) – are facing a very difficult time due to the Covid-19 health emergency. “Traditionally, eggs and doves were bought as gifts to bring to friends and relatives – explain...

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With the Eternal City turned into a stark De Chirico landscape because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Vatican will mark an uprecedented Holy Week as celebrations leading up to and including Easter, Christianity’s most important holiday, will allow only for virtual viewing. In past years Settimana Santa, the name for Holy Week in Italy, was a period...

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The vigorous celebrations of Pasqua and Pasquetta in Italy -- Easter and the Monday after Easter -- are as much a part of the season of renewal as any of nature's predictable proclamations.  It's a time of awakening. Vibrant green spills over the Italian countryside almost overnight as if a heavenly saint spilled a bucketful of paint from above. Ne...

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At an Italian table, Easter is on par with Christmas in terms of traditional dishes, rituals, family recipes, and a large gathering of relatives to share it all with. Newly-sprung spring has much to do with typical Easter fare, so you'll often find dishes prepared with fresh ricotta made from the sweet and creamy milk of sheep that have been nibbli...

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